At their April 25-26, 2023 Richard M. Schulze Board of Trustees meeting, our board awarded over $8.5 million to 168 grantees in Minnesota and Florida.
Education
Human & Social Services
Health & Medicine
- Avivo f/k/a RESOURCE for Career Education and Employment Services
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Charlotte County for their Summer Brain Gain Camp
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County for their Summer Smarts and Scholarships program
- Breakthrough Twin Cities for Student and Teacher Support
- Camp Fire Minnesota for their 2023 Camp Scholarship Program
- Catholic Youth Camps for their Connects Partnership program
- Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc. for General Operations and Hurricane Ian Recovery
- createMPLS for Creating Access to STEM Learning
- Cristo Rey Jesuit High School for Expansion of Ken Melrose Technology Lab
- East Side Neighborhood Services for their Industrial On-Ramp program
- Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation to Support Young Children’s School Readiness
- Friends of Foster Children, SWFL for Academic Mentoring of Foster Youth
- Friends of the Hennepin County Library for Homework Help
- Fun Time Early Childhood Academy for Educational Programming and Expansion
- Grace Place for Children and Families for their Bright Beginnings Family Literacy & High School OST programs
- Guadalupe Center for Early Childhood Education and Out-of-School programs
- Hope Farm School for educational programming
- Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis for their ParentChild+ programming
- Junior Achievement for North High School Entrepreneurship programs
- KIPP Minnesota for Literacy Revolution 2.0 programLiteracy Council Gulf Coast for ESL Adult and Family programs
- Salesian Sisters for Guardian Angel Scholarship program
- Salesian Sisters for St. Elizabeth Seton Tuition Assistance
- School Sisters of Notre Dame for Living and Operating Costs
- Southside Family Nurturing Center for Dual Generation Therapeutic Early Childhood Education and Evidence-Based Family Home Visiting
- The Family Partnership for Multicultural Therapeutic Preschools
- The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library for Support of Out-of-School Time Educational Activities
- The St. Paul Seminary, School of Divinity for The Institute for Catholic School Leadership at The Saint Paul Seminary
- The Works Museum Engineering for All Tree Trust Career Pathways
- Vail Christian High School for Faculty Innovation Grants
- Way to Grow for Great By Eight (K-3rd) programs
- Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center for Catholic School Scholarships
- WomenVenture Entrepreneurship for Pathways Scholarship Program
- YMCA of Southwest Florida for Nurturing the Potential of Every Child program
- 360 Communities for General Operating Support
- A Chance to Grow for Teen Parents’ Transportation
- Agate Housing & Services – The Food Centre for Meals and so Much More
- Alliance Housing, Inc. for Building Opportunities for Stable Housing
- Amherst H. Wilder Foundation for Family Supportive Housing Services
- Ampersand Families for General Operating Support
- Appetite For Change, Inc. for Meal Box Delivery and Youth Engagement
- Avenues for Youth for Youth Shelter Programs
- Beyond New Beginnings for 20 x 25 program
- Bolder Options for General Operating
- Cars for Neighbors, Inc. for COVID Supplemental Repairs Year 2
- Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis for Family Service Center
- Children’s Home Society of Minnesota for Children’s Home Adoptee Day Camps
- Collier County Senior Resource Center, Inc. for Direct Assistance
- CommonBond Communities for Advantage Services for Low-Income Families
- Community Cooperative, Inc. for Emergency Food Programs & Strengthening Families Initiative
- Conflict Resolution Center for Housing Stability via Eviction Prevention
- Cookie Cart for General Operating
- Cornerstone Advocacy Service for School-Based Services (SBS) Program
- Courage Kenny Foundation for Kenny Vocational Services
- CROSS Services for General Operations
- Damascus Way Reentry Center for Reentry Program
- EMERGE Community Development for EMERGE North 4 Project
- Emerge Mothers Academy for General Operations in Equipping Mom-Led Families to Build Stability & Thrive
- Emma Norton Services, Inc. for Emma’s Place Family Housing and Youth Program + Capital for Children’s Playspace in Restoring Waters
- Epiphany Caring For Life for Life Baby Closet and Traveling Closet
- Eye-Link Foundation for General Operating Support
- Family Fest Ministries, Inc. for Scholarships
- Family Values for Life for General operating
- Feed My Starving Children for Meal Packing for the Hungry
- Good in the ‘Hood for Food Programs
- Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota for Career Training & Education
- Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery for General Operating Support and Children’s Outdoor Play Space
- Guardian ad Litem Foundation, 20th Judicial Circuit, Inc. for Children’s Needs Program
- Headway Emotional Health Services for Family Home Visiting Programs
- Homeward Bound, Inc. for New Homes for Individuals with Severe and Profound Disabilities
- HopeKids for HopeDay Programs
- ICA Food Shelf for Reaching More Neighbors Facing Food Insecurity Programs
- Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for New Beginnings Project
- Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul for Opportunity Saint Paul program
- Joseph’s Coat, Inc. for Hygiene Program
- Keystone Community Services for General Operating Support
- Kids ‘n Kinship for Mentoring program
- Legal Aid Service of Collier County for Legal Services to Victims Project
- Lighthouse of Collier, Inc. for Assistive Technology to Blind/Visually Impaired
- Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota LSS for Metro Homeless Youth Services and Families Together Therapeutic Preschool programs
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida for Adopt-A-Wish
- Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Minnesota for Make-A-Wish® Minnesota
- Meals of Hope for General Operations
- Metropolitan State University Foundation for Food for Thought Food Pantry
- MicroGrants for Microgrants
- Midwest Food Bank for Florida Food Relief: Transportation-Refrigerated Trailer
- Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans for Comprehensive Services for Twin Cities Area Veterans
- Minnesota Independence College & Community as Challenge Grant for New and/or Re-Engaged Donors GiveMN Minnesota
- Jewish Community Center for Minnesota JCC Youth and Youth Inclusion Programming
- Minnesota Justice Foundation for Summer Fellowship Program
- Minnesota Zoo Foundation for DreamNight 2023
- MoveFWD, Inc. for Transitional Living Program
- My Very Own Bed for Twin Cities Metro Bed Delivery
- Naples Senior Center at JFCS for Alleviating Senior Isolation and Hunger – Lunch and More
- Neighborhood Development Center for Business Labs Technical Assistance Services
- Neighbors, Inc. for General Program Operations
- Open Cupboard for Today’s Harvest relocation and expansion
- Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, Inc. for 2023 Working to Wipe Out Hunger
- Our Saviour’s Community Services for Housing Emergency Shelter
- Park Nicollet Foundation for Growing Through Grief programs
- People Responding In Social Ministry (PRISM) for Marketplace Food Shelf
- People Serving People for General Operations
- Perspectives, Inc. for Children’s Programming (33 months through 8th grade)
- Presbyterian Homes & Services for Optage Dining
- Project Got Your Back for Small Business Foundation Navigator Program
- PROP Food Shelf for General Operating Support
- Rebuilding Together Twin Cities for Safe and Healthy Homes for Low-Income Children
- Ronald McDonald House of Rochester MN Inc. for Annual Operations
- Second Harvest Heartland for Heartland Urgent Needs
- Second Stork for Essential Newborn Supplies
- Sharing and Caring Hands for Mary’s Place Backpacks, Tutoring Program, Winter Coats, & Food
- Small Sums for General Operating
- Southern Anoka Community Assistance for General Operating Support
- Southern Valley Alliance for Preventing Domestic Violence Through Outreach and Education
- Spare Key for Help Me Bounce program
- St. David’s Center for Child & Family Development Children’s for Mental Health Assessment, Support and Intervention Pilot
- St. Louis Park Emergency Program, Inc. for Food Support & Family Stabilization
- St. Mary’s Health Clinics for Primary Health Care & COVID Safety for the Uninsured
- St. Matthew’s House for Campbell Lodge Capacity Building
- St. Paul Youth Services for Pre-Charge Diversion program
- Standpoint for General Operations Support
- STARability Foundation for Vocational Services
- The Aliveness Project Meals and Food Shelf for Minnesotans Living with HIV
- The Dwelling Place for Transitional Housing and Support Services for Victims of Domestic Violence
- The Open Door for Mobile Pantry Program
- Theresa Living Center for General Operations
- Think Small for Advancing Quality Early Childhood Care and Education
- Together for Good for TFG Grow: Awareness and Impact
- Urban Roots MN for Equitable Youth Development through Paid Internships Programming
- Volunteers of America-MN for Resilience and Well-Being through Services and Volunteerism
- Washburn Center for Children for Ensuring families have access to early intervention in mental health care
- Women’s Advocates for General Operations
- Wounded Warrior Project, Inc. for Emergency Financial Assistance for Minnesota Warriors & Soldier Ride Twin Cities
- Wounded Warriors of Collier County for Warrior Homes Veteran Housing and Support Services
- YMCA of the North for Get Summer
- Youth Frontiers for Creating Positive Learning Environments Through Character-Driven Leadership
- Youth Haven for General Operations
- YouthLink for General Operating
- A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation for Patient & Family Support program
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Naples for Low-Income Adult Fund
- Camp Odayin for Minnesota Residential Camp
- CaringBridge for Product and Content Development
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center for Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare for Children & Families
- Help A Diabetic Child, Inc. for Insulin, Diabetes Medical Supplies, and Services Initiative
- Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation for Patient support services and general operations
- Naples Children & Education Foundation for Healthcare Initiatives Expansion
- Neighborhood HealthSource for Promoting Pediatric Access
- Our Lady of Peace Home for General Operating Support
- The American Diabetes Association for Camp Needlepoint and Camp Daypoint programs
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Upper Plains Region for Local Patient Financial Assistance Program in Minnesota
- University of Florida Foundation, Inc. for College of Dentistry’s Children’s Oral Health
- University of Florida Foundation, Inc. for Supplies for Children in Lee & Collier counties afflicted with diabetes
The above listings do not include all Spring 2023 awards.